- Born
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- Birth nameBarbara Purser Hicks
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- The youngest of three daughters born to iron and steel merchant William 'Copper' Hicks and Hester, She was educated at a girls school in Shrewsbury where she appeared as the Duke of Gloucester in Richard of Bordeaux and as Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, She served as a land girl during WWII and trained for the theatre at the Webber Douglas School in London and graduated in 1947, She made her stage debut in Written For a Lady at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool which transferred to the Garrick Theatre in London followed by work at the repertory theatres at New Brighton and Hammersmith- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5
- SpousesPeter Taylor(1970 - 2010) (his death, 1 child)Robert Loblowitz(1951 - 1961) (divorced)
- Barbara Hicks trained at the Webber Douglas School and made numerous appearances on stage, screen, and television over more than half a century. She was the mother of actor Giles Taylor.
- Her brief and uncredited role in "Tom Jones" required her to lead a small group of village women who throw clumps of earth and shout abuse at the Diane Cilento character, Molly, who has been revealed as pregnant whilst unmarried. Director Tony Richardson asked her to improvise a line during the filming of this scene, but the torrent of verbal abuse she improvised on the spot was so foul-mouthed that it was almost entirely cut.
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